Oh, I suggest you look at the VMWare 8 manual.
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VinitJul 6 '12 at 7:09

Your edit completely changes the meaning of the question. The windows doesn't have a tty issue is what got the closing started. You shouldn't change meaning with an edit. They're for refinements, not reversals of meaning. I would re-ask this question in its new form instead of editing it.
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hbdgafJul 6 '12 at 10:38

Check if that keystroke combo is not being passed to Windows (host OS) instead. I have has similar issues with VirtualBox.

Note:You are still running the standard Ubuntu binary code, but on quite different 'hardware'. It is actually running on the VMware 8 emulation of a PC, not your desktop PC. Some keystrokes are (by default) retained for passing commands back to the host.